worst book I saw in this “best of British” selection

is Mantel Pieces good?

Points for title.

Rex Mantlepiece to thread!

It's hard to objectively poll a "worst book", because if people suspect a book is likely to be bad, they avoid it. Any poll results you get are more probably a reflection of "which author among these do I despise the most".

For “worst” sub in least appropriate/wrong nationality/what the fuck as taste suits

I had forgotten that Tom Bower was the author of the scathing biography of Corbyn and went and bought a couple of other books by him. Operation Paperclip. I mean obviously if he is going to attack Corbyn his perspective on everything else must be equally askew. Innit. Like.

Secret Barrister one is worst because I hate all these fucking coward ‘Secret’ whatever things. You know that whoever the actual person is, is the biggest cunt in whatever profession it is

iirc he has a Twitter rep - it must be a he - for being a wanker

Took the words out of my mouth, was very concerned about Corbyn’s “authoritarianism” iirc

setting aside the political attitudinising on twitter (which my learned friends and esteemed colleagues gyac and noodle vague characterise correctly), the LRB review of the secret barrister book was actually pretty positive: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n05/stephen-sedley/mischief-wrought

i can't imagine it's worse than anything by tom bower

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